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LOFOTEN TOURIST
ENTERPRISES AS
N-8392 Sørvågen, Lofoten Islands,
Norway.
The company has now closed down
after 18 years in the service of tourism in Lofoten. Business has now been
taken over by a new, younger company. Click
here for
further details.
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Web:
www.lofoten-info.no -
E-mail: lte@lofoten-info.no
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Lofoten Tourist Enterprises AS (LTE)
was founded in August 1987, with 14 local shareholders.
Environmentally sustainable tourism and local community development have been
the company’s main fields of operation from the beginning. Over the years, LTE
has initiated and supervised a wide range of local and regional development
projects, for the most part based in western Lofoten.
Ideology
Our natural surroundings and culture are attractive, but
also vulnerable. In the future, North Norwegian nature, culture and character
will be sought after by an increasing number of travellers from other parts of
the world – continuing a process that began over a hundred years ago.
A determined effort will enable the Lofoten Islands to build up a position as
one of the country’s most exciting and attractive “tourist magnets.” This will
boost local business at all levels and help check the effects of a comprehensive
process of national centralization. But if we are to assert ourselves in the
future competition for tourists, the type of tourism we offer must be based on
the sustainable utilization of nature, culture and human resources.
Ecology/Economics/Human Settlement – an important connection
The maintenance of vibrant, decentralized human settlement
is the best way to preserve the environment. We must acknowledge the fact that
the local consumer is also the best conservationist, due to his local knowledge
and long-standing traditions.
If we are economically, socially and culturally dependent on a resource, it is
easier for us to take on the role of its guardian and protector. This applies to
the coastal population’s and the coastal fishermen’s relationship to the fish
resources, and also to the relationship the villagers and tourist hosts have to
the surrounding environment – the enjoyment of which is what their guests are
paying for.
This means that decentralized human settlement helps preserve environmental
qualities that both the fisheries and the tourist industry are dependent on.
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